The Parker County Sheriff's Office revealed charges against five people who are accused of running a scam that bilked county residents out of $1.2 million.

Investigators started pursuing the case in April, the sheriff's office said in a news release. Multiple victims had filed complaints reporting that scammers had posed as employees of the sheriff's office and demanded payments to settle outstanding warrants or missed jury duty. The suspects instructed victims victims to purchase cryptocurrency through bitcoin ATMs , then transfer the funds to wallets owned by the scammers, authorities said.

Investigators were able to obtain search warrants for banking, phone and internet records and identified five suspects. Two of them are in Texas and three are in Georgia , the sheriff's office

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